Hi friends!!!
You are so welcome here.
I’m Lea, a 23 year-old high school teacher who works in a nontraditional high school for students with needs normal schools fail to address. My heart is to bring the Lord’s healing and restoration in the most difficult situations as I believe nothing is too big for my God.
16 year old me made this in hopes that others may encounter the love of God, which continues to completely transform and heal my life.
Welcome to my lifetime vulnerability project! It is mostly unedited, so please don’t come for me if you find typos. Although having very raw stories and encounters from literally my whole life since junior year of high school on the internet freaks me out a little, I truly believe that putting this out there is worth it. I do my best to honor the boundaries of people who I write about while also still keeping it as real as possible. This blog is the opposite of a highlight reel, and I hope to normalize all the deep feels and break any cycles of perfectionistic generational trauma by exploring the raw and deep. If you find yourself in this blog, you really mean a lot to me!
Some more things about me:
- I’m a XA alum of both Davis Christian Fellowship and Chi Alpha Stanford and am grateful to have been so deeply poured into by both in undergrad and grad school.
- I value relationships over climbing hierarchies/ladders, growth + grace over perfection, healing, wholeness, empathetic listening, and surrender over striving.
- I love worship, buying people food, crying at church, asking deep questions, and walking with others through pain and the unknowns of life.
- I lived in a ministry home for 3 years!
- I used to be an EMT!
- I spent 2 years teaching a chemistry support class for first-generation, low income, students of color at UC Davis and this was one of the greatest joys of my life!
- I majored in Biological Psychology with minors in dance and education at UC Davis!
- I have an MA in education from Stanford with an emphasis in trauma informed teaching practices and restorative, social justice oriented education.
- Psychology and Neuroscience are huge passions of mine. The complexity of how our brains are wired demonstrate how much we should appreciate what our brains do for us
- I have a huge passion for first-generation students in STEM education and calling out the strengths in students who feel the most marginalized
My main hobbies are dancing, worshipping, writing, and going to the dog park by myself.
I love to write because that is how I process my memories. When I’m out living, I feel like I have so much to write about. When I’m writing, I feel like I have so much to live for. Sometimes I get to the end of something I’ve written and I know what it was all about, and other times I haven’t solved anything. But at least then I have another entry about that thing.
Welcome to my thought dance pursuing the One who created me. Peep this picture above of 16 yr old me =)
lea faith 